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| Well the problem was that i couldnt lock the door on the pasenger side, the key would turn the lock but it didnt stop the door from moving and it didnt move the lock button, plus the drivers side door only locked if I turned the key really really hard. So i decided to take apart my doors and fix em. Now first make sure its a real problem, my doors will only lock if the door is all the way closed! i dont know if all z's are like that or just the 73 year but the doors have to be ALL the way closed. Below is the step my step of what i did and how i did it. |
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| Well when you start your door looks like this, the first step is to take off all the handles and stuff, its not hard. The armrest is held on by two philips head screws, the grab handle has two also, the end caps pop off if you pry them up a little. The opening handle has one screw right in the middle, you have to pry off the center cover peice to get to it. The window handle has a clip thing on it, i used a small screw driver and a little pair of pliers to get it out, also thers the lock knob on top the door that has to be taken off, it just screws off. |
| Ok now you should have a pile of peices like this, you can see the wholes for the arm rest screws as well as the little window crank clip sitting on top the arm rest. Also the only three tools i used to get the think apart, two screw drivers and a litlte pair of pliers! Now just pull back around the sides of the panel and then lift if up and off the door. There are little clips around the edges you should here pop when you pull back, then it should just slip right off the top of the door. |
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| Then your left with a door that looks like this, and.... |
| a panel that looks like this. A great chance to really scrub that thing clean! |
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| Now peel back that plastic, dont rip it. Then all the lock and release junk is in the far back hole, the tall vertical one. |
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| Well thats the hole, if you enlarge it you can kinda see into it. My problem was one of the rods in there poped out of place, i just put it back and sprayed an ass load of WD 40 in there. |
| Now just put everything back together the same way you took it apart only in reverse. This fixed my locks and so im happy. I used 3m spray adhesive to glue the plastic back onto my doors. Other then that they go back together real easy. Hope this helps ya! |